S03E08: The Road To Revolution: The Execution of Ceauşescu | Days That Shook the World

05: 1968 Vietnam | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow reveal the techniques use by US marines to flush out Communist fighters who lived in a ne...

05: Korea: 1949-1953 | Cold War

Korea after the Second World War was occupied by both the Soviets and the Americans, who respectively installed Kim Il Sung and Syngman Rhee ...

11: The Cold War Confrontation | Twentieth Century History

The Berlin blockade of 1948-49 and the Korean War 1950-53.

01: Deja Vu (1858-1961) | The Vietnam War

Revolutionaries led by Ho Chi Minh end French colonial occupation. Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva.

11: Vietnam: 1954-1968 | Cold War

After losing the Battle of Dien Bien Phu the French leave Vietnam. A stream of refugees flee to the south after the Communist north institu...

12: Mr Kennedy and Mr Khruschev | Twentieth Century History

The contest between the United States and the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1963 leading to the Cuban Missile Cri...

10: Cuba: 1959-1962 | Cold War

Fidel Castro comes to power following the Cuban Revolution. Cuba aligns itself with the Soviet Union and the government starts nationalising A...

04: 1951 Korea | Peter and Dan Snow: 20th Century Battlefields

Peter and Dan Snow, at the border between North and South Korea, tell of two key moments in the years of fight...

08: Age of Extremes | Andrew Marr's History of the World

In this episode, Andrew Marr brings the story right up to date with the twentieth century.

Korean War | Twentieth Century History

An explanation of how the Korean war unfolded.

06: Things Fall Apart (January 1968-June 1968) | The Vietnam War

North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launch surprise attacks on cities and military bases.

14: Red Spring: 1960s | Cold War

Likewise the Soviet Union started the decade with growing openness and optimism. There was also an emerging cohort of youth with no memory o...

07: Chasing Ghosts (June 1968-May 1969) | The Vietnam War

Public support for the war declines, and American men of draft age face difficult decisions.

23: 1975: War of the Flea | People's Century

While in the second half of the century there are fewer conventional wars, civil conflicts under the backdrop of superpower riva...

02: Riding the Tiger (1961-1963) | The Vietnam War

President Kennedy and his advisers wrestle with how deeply to get involved in South Vietnam. As the increasingly autocrati...

03: Hell Come to Earth (January 1964-December 1965) | The Vietnam War

With South Vietnam in chaos, Hanoi hardliners seize the initiative and send combat troops.

09: Fratricide (May 1970-March 1973) | The Vietnam War

Massive US airpower makes the difference in halting an unprecedented North Vietnamese offensive.

12: MAD: 1960-1972 | Cold War

The United States nuclear strategy of counterforce, intended to counter a Soviet conventional attack by targeting military facilities, is discr...

15: 1951: Asia Rising | People's Century

Through thrift, hard work and discipline, Japan and later South Korea enjoy economic miracles that bring growth, prosperity and conf...

16: Détente: 1969-1975 | Cold War

Nixon builds closer relations with China and the USSR, hoping to leverage an honourable US exit from Indochina. The Soviet Union is fearfu...